1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Craig Mermel is the President and Chief Product Officer at Precision Neuroscience which is a company looking to commercialize Brain-Computer Interfaces using a minimally implantation method and a soft electrode device. ***This podcast is sponsored by Iris Biomedical, check out their Neurotech Startup Services here*** Top 3 Takeaways &quot;The combination of both the nature of our thin film and the surgical innovations that we bring enables us to bring cortical surface neurotechnology to patients in a minimally invasive fashion.&quot; &quot;Having 10 times the amount of money at an early stage before you actually solve some of the key problems can be a problem because it pushes off some of the hard questions you have to ask yourself.&quot; &quot;We're thinking ahead to the future where you have tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of interfaces. The amount of damage you do will become a limiting factor at some point.&quot; 0:45 Do you want to introduce yourself better than I just did? 1:30 Why did you leave Apple and Google? 2:30 What is Precision and why is it special? 6:00 What's the funding look like? 8:00 &quot;Why hasn't this been done before?&quot; 10:00 Are you thinking about licensing out the technology? 11:15&amp;nbsp;Iris Biomedical ad sponsorship 12:00 What's your role now in Precision?&quot; &amp;nbsp;12:45 &quot;What are some of your biggest challenges?&quot; 15:30 You guys raised $12M, why specifically this number? 19:00 &quot;What are some, best practices or traps to avoid?&quot; 21:45 Let's do a deeper dive into your work at Google and Apple &amp;nbsp;27:30 How would you compare working at Google and Apple vs being in a startup? 29:15 &quot;Is there anything that we didn't talk about that you wanted to mention?&quot; &amp;nbsp; Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions http://neuralimplantpodcast.com <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/25308009/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/144449418